#chadice

[hello-lesbian-dinosaur]

powerful kisses🏆🎲❤️❤️

alternative ending bonus:

[jessequinnfirstofhername]

The Rules:

Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the character in last place will be eliminated.

If there are multiple characters tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every character in last place will be eliminated, even if all the characters have tied equally.

When there are only two characters remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

...and now for something completely different! Rather than voting for options that have already been chosen by me, you get to pick the options that will be included in this poll from Round Two onward. Please reply or reblog this post with the underrated character you'd like to include in this poll.

This is all for fun. Don’t take it too seriously ;)

Thank-you so much everyone for submitting your candidates! Let's all give a big round of applause to the candidates that unfortunately didn't make the cut:

K-2SO, Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Bodhi Rook, Baze Malbus, Chirut Îmwei, and Padme Amidala.

Here we go! Round Two!

PS: If I misspelled or misstagged anyone, please let me know.

[halepo]

I told you I would get them comissioned one day.

What better day than today.

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY, MY FRIEND

@femmefighter

Awesome art by the painfully talented @manofbeskar !!

[vulpes115]

My Top 5 of Star Wars Ships

W/W Ships

1. Sabé/Padmé Amidala (Queen’s Trilogy)

2. Yrica Quell/Chass Na Chadic (Alphabet Squadron)

3. Sabine Wren/Shin Hati (Ahsoka)

4. Zeen Mrala/Lula Talisola (The High Republic Adventures)

5. Ahsoka Tano/Barriss Offee (Clone Wars)

M/M Ships

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi/Cody (Clone Wars)

2. Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb Orrelios (Rebels)

3. Tey Sirrek/Vildar Mac (High Republic Phase II)

4. Poe Dameron/Finn (Sequel Trilogy)

5. Luke Skywalker/Din Djardin (The Mandalorian)

M/W Ships

1. Ciena Ree/Thane Kyrell (Lost Stars Novel)

2. Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso (Rogue One)

3. Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla (Rebels)

4. Merrin/Cal Kestis (Jedi Video Games)

5. Han Solo/Leia Organa (Original Trilogy)

I also want to give a shout to the Firebrands throuple from the High Republic of Stellan Gios, Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann, they are my main Star Wars ship but I didn’t have enough other throuples I had strong feelings about to make a specific list just for them, but I love those three with my whole heart

[jynjackets]

I will forget my own name before I forget jyn caressing cassians hair in the elevator on scarif

[welcome-to-the-holonet]

[legomocfodder]

Alphabet Squadron

Wyl Lark, Nath Tensent, Kairos, Caern Adan, I-TO, Yrica Quell, and Chass na Chadic

I was inspired to update these figs when Lego released the bright green mohawk piece, which is perfect for Chass

[jondrawsthings]

[possessivesuffix]

Do you have any literature on sound changes involving ejective consonants? Specifically ejective consonants changing into something else?

I don't know of any general surveys, but several individual cases are of course found in literature in more detail. It would be worthwhile to have some compiled data on this though! For a start I'll collect some examples in this post.

The best-described case might be Semitic, where any handbook (or even just the Wikipedia article) will inform you about *kʼ > q, tsʼ > (t)s etc. being attested in Arabic / Aramaic / Hebrew. Offhand I don't know if there is a particular locus classicus on the issue of reconstructing ejectives for Proto-Semitic, though.

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Cushitic, which I've been recently talking about, has open questions remaining especially in what exactly to reconstruct for various correspondences involving ejective affricates, but at least the development of the ejective stops seems to be well-established. Going first mainly per Sasse (1979), The Consonant Phonemes of Proto-East Cushitic, Afroasiatic Linguistics 7/1, three developments into something else appear across East Cushitic for *tʼ:

*tʼ > /ɗ/ (alveolar implosive): Oromo, Boni, Arboroid (Arbore, Daasenech, Elmolo), Dullay, Yaaku and, at least word-internally, Highland East Cushitic.

*tʼ >> /ᶑ/ (retroflex implosive): Konsoid (Konso, Dirasha a.k.a. Gidole, Bussa). (As per Tesfaye 2020, The Comparative Phonology of Konsoid, Macrolinguistics 8/2. Some other descriptions give these too as alveolar /ɗ/.)

*tʼ >>> /ɖ/ (retroflex voiced plosive): Saho–Afar, Somali, Rendille.

Presumably these all happen along a common path *tʼ > ⁽*⁾ɗ > ⁽*⁾ᶑ > ɖ. Note though that Sasse reconstructs *ɗ and not *tʼ — but comparison with the case of *kʼ, the cognates elsewhere in Cushitic, and /tʼ/ in Dahalo and word-initially in Highland East Cushitic I think all point to *tʼ in the last common ancestor of East Cushitic. (As per other literature, I don't think East Cushitic is necessarily a valid subgroup and so this last common ancestor may also be ancestral to some of the other branches of Cushitic.)

For *kʼ there is a wide variety of secondary reflexes:

Saho–Afar: *kʼ > /k/ ~ /ʔ/ ~ zero (unclear conditions).

Konso: *kʼ > /ʛ/ (no change in Bussa & Dirasha).

Daasenech: *kʼ > /ɠ/ word-initially, else > /ʔ/.

Elmolo: *kʼ > zero word-initially, else > /ɠ/.

Bayso: *kʼ > zero.

Somali: *kʼ > /q/, which varies as [q], [ɢ] etc.; merges in Southern Somali into /x/). Before front vowels, > /dʒ/.

Rendille: *kʼ > /x/.

Boni: *kʼ > /ʔ/.

though some of them again could be grouped along common pathways like *kʼ > *q > *χ > x, *kʼ > *ʔ > zero.

*čʼ > /ʄ/ happens at minimum in Konso (corresponds to /tʃʼ/ in Bussa & Dirasha). Proposed developments of a type *čʼ >> /ɗ/ in some other languages could go thru a merger with *tʼ first of all.

No East Cushitic *pʼ seems to be reconstructible, but narrower groups show *pʼ > /ɓ/ in Konsoid (corresponds to Oromo /pʼ/) and maybe *pʼ > /ʔ/ in Sidaamo (corresponds to Gedeo /pʼ/; mainly in loans from Oromo).

There is also an unpublished PhD from University of California at LA: Linda Arvanites (1991), The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic. I would be interested if someone else has access to this (edit: has been procured, thank you!)

Secondary developments of *tʼ and *kʼ in the rest of Cushitic, per Ehret (1987), Proto-Cushitic Reconstruction, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 8 (he also reconstructs *pʼ *tsʼ *čʼ *tɬʼ, but I'm less trustful of their validity):

Beja: *tʼ > /s/, *kʼ > /k/.

Agaw: *tʼ > *ts (further > /ʃ/ in Bilin and Kemant), *kʼ > *q (further word-initially > /x/ in Xamtanga and Kemant, /ʁ/ in Awngi)

West Rift: *kʼ > *q (and *tʼ > *tsʼ).

(The tendency for assibilation of *tʼ is interesting; although plenty of Cushitic languages get rid of ejectives entirely, none seems to have a native sound change *tʼ > /t/.)

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The historical phonology of the largest Afrasian branch, Chadic, is much more of a work in progress, but I would trust at least the following points as noted e.g. by Russell Schuh (2017), A Chadic Cornucopia:

*tʼ > *ɗ perhaps already in Proto-Chadic (supposedly all Chadic languages have /ɗ/);

*kʼ > /ɠ/ in Tera (Central Chadic);

/tsʼ/ in Hausa and some other languages corresponds to /ʄ/ or /ʔʲ/ in some other West Chadic languages, not entirely clear though which side is more original.

Tera /ɠ/ alas does not seem to be discussed in detail in the Leiden University PhD thesis by Richard Gravina (2014), The phonology of Proto-Central Chadic; he e.g. asserts /ɠəɬ/ 'bone' to be an irregular development from *ɗiɬ, while Schuch takes it as a cognate of e.g. Hausa /kʼàʃī/ 'bone'. (Are there two etyma here, or might the other involved Central Chadic languages have *ɠ > /ɗ/?)

If Olga Stolbova (2016), Chadic Etymological Dictionary is to be trusted (I've not done any vetting of its quality) then Hausa /tsʼ/ is indeed already from Proto-Chadic *tsʼ, and elsewhere in Chadic often yields /s/, sometimes /ts/ or /h/. Her Proto-Chadic *kʼ mostly merges with /k/ when not surviving. (She also has an alleged *tʼ with no ejective reflexes anywhere, and alleged *čʼ and *tɬʼ which mostly fall together with *tsʼ, but also show some slightly divergent reflexes like /ʃ/, /ɬ/ respectively.)

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Moving on, a few other examples I'm aware of OTTOMH include the cases of word-medial voicing in several Koman languages and in some branches of Northeast Caucasian (Chechen and Ingush in Nakh; *pʼ in most Lezgic languages). Also in NEC, the Lezgic group shows complicated decay of geminate ejectives, broadly:

> plain voiceless geminate in Lezgian, Tabassaran & Agul (same also in Tindi within the Andic group);

> voiceless singleton (aspirated) in Kryz & Budux;

Rutul & Tsaxur show some of both of the previous depending on the consonant, as well as word-initially *tsʼː > /d/ and *tɬʼː > /g/ — probably by feeding into the more general shift *voiceless geminate > *unaspirated > voiced (which happens in almost all of Lezgic).

in Udi, both short and geminate ejectives > plain voiceless geminates (plus a few POA quirks like *qʼʷ > /pː/, even though *qʷ > /q/).

Again I don't know if this has been described in better detail anywhere in literature, this is pulled just from the overviews in the North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary plus some review of the etymological data by myself.

Ejectives in Kartvelian are mostly stable in manner of articulation, but there's a minor sound correspondence between Karto-Zan *cʼ₁ (probably = /tʃʼ/) versus Svan /h/ that newer sources like Heinz Fähnrich (2007), Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch for some reason reconstruct as *tɬʼ or *tɬ. The Svan development would then probably go as *tɬ⁽ʼ⁾ > *ɬ > /h/, after original PKv *ɬ > /l/.

I do not know very much about the historical phonology of any American languages, including if there's anything interesting happening to ejectives there; if someone else around here does, please do tell!

[slyandthefamilybook]

Okay. who in Alphabet Squadron gets the most

Yrica Quell: Does okay I think. She's mentioned having at least one long-term girlfriend and boyfriend, and "sharing a bunk" with a couple squadmates in Shadow Wing. She mostly has sex when she's in a bad mood

Wyl Lark: Has only had sex once, but he gets propositioned a lot. He's totally the kind of guy to only fuck when he has an intense emotional connection with the person. He's also way younger than almost anyone else in the battle group

Nath Tensent: Drowning in it. Coming in from all sides. Everyone loves a bear. He's the kind of guy you have sex with as a friend and it doesn't make things weird

Kairos: Does not fuck. Has no interest in doing so

Chass na Chadic: I think everyone assumes Chass has tons of sex because she's hot, but she has a lot of trauma that prevents her from being intimate with people, even casually. She's had sex maybe 6-7 times and hated it every time

Caern Adan: Gets zero dick. Gets negative dick. Has a force field that actively repels dick. Even IT-O won't fuck him

[hello-lesbian-dinosaur]

🎲💜a king and his queen🏆💛

[jessequinnfirstofhername]

The Rules:

Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the character in last place will be eliminated.

If there are multiple characters tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every character in last place will be eliminated, even if all the characters have tied equally.

When there are only two characters remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

...and now for something completely different! Rather than voting for options that have already been chosen by me, you get to pick the options that will be included in this poll from Round Two onward. Please reply or reblog this post with the underrated character you'd like to include in this poll.

This is all for fun. Don’t take it too seriously ;)

Time to say goodbye to Yrica Quell!

No gifs are available for her, unfortunately, so enjoy this X-Wing gif!

Round Five!

[thegeekylady52]

crying over star wars disabled lesbians

[kanerallels]

For my 501st follower celebration, as requested here by @auroramagpie: a snippet of the Squadron Dad Au!

“Drop and give me twenty!”

Chass let out a long, theatrical groan as she dropped to the ground and started doing push ups next to Wyl, who was already doing his. “I think I hate this guy,” she mumbled.

“He’s… an acquired taste,” Wyl offered.

“That’s how you say you hate someone on Polyneus, right?” Nath said from next to them. The man was breathing hard, but still wore an easy grin.

Before Wyl could answer, their drill sergeant spoke up. It was tough for a grown man to look menacing while wrangling a five year old, but Kanan Jarrus managed to at least look stern. “Tensent, you seem like you’re enjoying yourself. This getting too easy for you?”

“Not at all, sir,” Nath called back.

“What about you, Chadic? You ready to take a break?”

Scowling at him, Chass said, “You know what you can do with your break? You can take it and—”

“Mr. Jarrus.” The clear, familiar voice of General Syndulla cut through whatever Chass had been about to say. Striding into the room where they were training, the general clasped her hands behind her back, surveying them with a thoughtful expression as she took it all in— Chass, Wyl, Nath, and Quell all doing push ups, while Jarrus watched, holding his kid’s backpack leash in one hand as Jacen explored the confines of the room.

“General Hera,” Kanan said, the corner of his mouth tipping up into a smile. Chass still wasn’t sure how this guy, of all people, got away with using the general’s first name. But then, there was a lot about him that she neither knew nor cared to know. Because she hated his guts.

“I take it things are going well?” General Syndulla said.

“More or less. With a little more training and discipline, I might even be able to whip them into shape. You’re welcome to stay and watch, if you want.”

“Tempting though that offer may be,” the general said, “I have other projects to work on. I just wanted to make sure things were running smoothly.”

“Absolutely, general. Drop by anytime,” he continued, and Chass could swear there was something almost flirtatious in his tone. I’m definitely imagining it, she told herself.

“After all, I’m always happy to have you around,” he added.

Oh yeah I’m not imagining that. Was their drill sergeant flirting with the general? Chass exchanged a glance with Wyl, who was grimacing. He’s lost his mind.

General Syndulla’s eyebrow went up. But all she said was, “As I said, I’m busy. But the offer is appreciated. Keep up the good work.”

Turning on her heel, she headed out of the room, and if he hadn’t been blind, Chass would swear that Kanan watched her go.

As they finished their push ups, Wyl hopped to his feet and went over to Kanan. “Uh, sir? About General Syndulla…”

“What about her?” Kanan said, frowning at him.

“Well, it’s just— I thought you should know. We’re pretty sure she’s married.”

To Chass’s surprise, Kanan found this so uproariously funny that he forgot to make them do their next set of drills, and sent them off to their ship maintenance time while he was still chuckling.

[starwarstoxicfemslash]

Yrica Quell/Chass na Chadic from Alphabet Squadron but they don't get the time apart after the crisis in Shadow Fall, so instead of taking stock, they're fighting half the time and all over each other the rest of the time

who needs healing when you can toxic messy gay sex instead?

[multifandomnonsense]

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Ahsoka - E. K. Johnston, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron Series - Alexander Freed Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaeden Larte/Ahsoka Tano, Ketsu Onyo/Sabine Wren, Ar'alani/Karyn Faro, The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV)/Bo-Katan Kryze, Barriss Offee/Ahsoka Tano, Chass na Chadic/Yrica Quell Characters: Kaeden Larte, Ahsoka Tano, Ketsu Onyo, Sabine Wren, Karyn Faro, Ar’alani (Star Wars), The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV), Bo-Katan Kryze, Barriss Offee, Yrica Quell, Chass na Chadic Additional Tags: Love Letters, swfsf2024, Fluff, Angst, only a tiny bit of angst tho, in one of them, its mostly fluff Series: Part 5 of SW Femslash February 2024 Summary:

A collection of short love letters. Each one is different and separate from the others. The chapter titles show who it is to and from.